Curation Tools in HE--Listing with List.ly
List.ly, among many popular curation-driven social media platforms, offers what appears to be useful opportunities for teaching and learning. The main plus to utilizing this tool appears to be collaboration opportunities.
For example, in a course encouraging students to learn more about instructional design in education, one might assign list.ly and have students search for pre-made lists, and either note these, or append to them to encourage collaboration outside of the traditional or online classroom environment. Further, students would be able to search for a list and finding it missing, fill in knowledge gaps by creating their own. Here is one example that I found relating to this proposed scenario: http://list.ly/list/zL0-teachers-as-designers-resources-to-inspire-in-week-3?feature=search
Evaluation of the tool itself:
List.ly is simple to create, as it allows you to generate the account by linking to other SM accounts. Further, it allows you to follow lists already made, to help you build your repository of interesting material. This is an excellent means for learning materials that are already out there, and also provides some insight into how others create and manage (curate) lists. It appears to work cross-platform, and though I have not yet verified its' accessibility, it appears that in building lists some of the accessible functionality is left up to the develop herself so it is limited based on the development choices made by each author in some manners.
This tool has unlimited potential in allowing usage within K20+ curriculum opportunities, and I can clearly see it being utilized to attain a number of instructional objectives. Additional features that need to be vetted include how student work can be tracked and accounted for on an individual basis. That being said, this type of assignment would lend itself well to group work, and it would be more likely in my own educational arena that I would assign the project as a group work activity, and the group would submit the list via any of the various sharing options or embed options, and from there, a peer evaluation would take place rather than individual assessment.
Collaboration potential further explored:
As noted, my own personal and professional usage of this tool would be in the classroom (either traditional or virtual). That being said, the collaborative functionality of this tool with students in one's own class would need to be controlled with instructions to make this collaboration meaningful. Likewise, directions provided to students on how they might interact with others on List.ly (general rules of operation, culture, etc.) may be useful, such as the orientation that was provided in this assignment.
Here is a general list that I created just for fun, in testing out the tool:
http://list.ly/list/1Alv-how-to-entertain-an-exceptionally-bright-young-teenager-during-summer-break
For example, in a course encouraging students to learn more about instructional design in education, one might assign list.ly and have students search for pre-made lists, and either note these, or append to them to encourage collaboration outside of the traditional or online classroom environment. Further, students would be able to search for a list and finding it missing, fill in knowledge gaps by creating their own. Here is one example that I found relating to this proposed scenario: http://list.ly/list/zL0-teachers-as-designers-resources-to-inspire-in-week-3?feature=search
Evaluation of the tool itself:
List.ly is simple to create, as it allows you to generate the account by linking to other SM accounts. Further, it allows you to follow lists already made, to help you build your repository of interesting material. This is an excellent means for learning materials that are already out there, and also provides some insight into how others create and manage (curate) lists. It appears to work cross-platform, and though I have not yet verified its' accessibility, it appears that in building lists some of the accessible functionality is left up to the develop herself so it is limited based on the development choices made by each author in some manners.
This tool has unlimited potential in allowing usage within K20+ curriculum opportunities, and I can clearly see it being utilized to attain a number of instructional objectives. Additional features that need to be vetted include how student work can be tracked and accounted for on an individual basis. That being said, this type of assignment would lend itself well to group work, and it would be more likely in my own educational arena that I would assign the project as a group work activity, and the group would submit the list via any of the various sharing options or embed options, and from there, a peer evaluation would take place rather than individual assessment.
Collaboration potential further explored:
As noted, my own personal and professional usage of this tool would be in the classroom (either traditional or virtual). That being said, the collaborative functionality of this tool with students in one's own class would need to be controlled with instructions to make this collaboration meaningful. Likewise, directions provided to students on how they might interact with others on List.ly (general rules of operation, culture, etc.) may be useful, such as the orientation that was provided in this assignment.
Here is a general list that I created just for fun, in testing out the tool:
http://list.ly/list/1Alv-how-to-entertain-an-exceptionally-bright-young-teenager-during-summer-break
Your list has inspired me =) I think I will make one for my next trip "How to Entertain a Tech Dependent Son in a Rural Farming Village in Africa." =) I can see how I might use this tool for my courses, "Where would you most like to do a location shoot in Moscow?" Then students can give me their ideas for field trips. Its always more fun to do photography with students off campus, I just never know where to take them.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Francy! What a fun list, lol! In truth, I have more consistently used Google Docs for this purpose, which is what my current blog will be discussing once I publish it momentarily. However, List.ly can also serve a similar purpose, and it is possible that some of the pre-made lists may allow more functionality/interaction opportunities than Google Docs itself allows. Not certain, but it is worth further investigation.
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